From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 20:29: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C56137B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE3543E77 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:29:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020927032859.SEWA1934.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 03:28:59 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8R3VM3q001865; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8R3VHW8001862; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Guido Van Hoecke Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support? References: <3D938CF0.9020906@VanHoecke.org> <3D93A0BE.5090204@VanHoecke.org> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 26 Sep 2002 20:31:17 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3D93A0BE.5090204@VanHoecke.org> Message-ID: Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Guido Van Hoecke writes earlier: > I specifically would like support for the Synaptics touch pad, but did > not find much in the FreeBSD documentation, nor in the ports collection. and now: > Just for the record: the touchpad acts as a normal ps2 mouse and needs > no special driver at all! > > (Thanx 2 hacker Brandon D. Valentine for the info) > > Hail FreeBSD! Don't forget the better record for the info you've learned. Please do your pay-back duty so future Synaptics and "i-Buddie 4" users can't say they did not find much in the FreeBSD documentation. You can file a quick PR in category "doc" at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html (or even a slow PR with patches to the documentation sources). P.S. As I look into things a bit, I have to warn you that your PR might get rejected because the hardware document seems to totally ignore pointers and video cards (but not keyboards)! Presumably, someone wanted to leave those to XFree86 documentation, but as many people run "moused" without an X server and as your experience shows, the documentation should at least have a pointer section. Please submit your PR anyway and I'll submit another, suggesting a pointer section and also a referral to the XFree86 documentation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message